Williamson man wanted in child rape case arrested in L.A.

Wendell Lee Washam

U.S. Marshals at the Los Angeles airport captured an 82-year-old Williamson County rape suspect as he arrived on a flight from Australia, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Monday.

The TBI put Wendell Lee Washam on the state's 10 most wanted list in December.

Washam was wanted by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office on several sexual assault charges, including two counts of rape of a child, solicitation to commit rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery, solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means, the TBI said. He was scheduled to appear in court Dec. 3 to enter a guilty plea, but did not show.

He will be extradited to Tennessee, the TBI said.

- Adam Tamburin

The Tennessean

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Williamson man wanted in child rape case arrested in L.A.

U.S. Marshals at the Los Angeles airport captured an 82-year-old Williamson County rape suspect as he arrived on a flight from Australia, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Monday.